Plenary session: Welcome and keynote presentation
Coming together to meet our responsibilities as stewards of our shared natural resources
Chairman Tehassi Hill, Oneida Nation
Sponsored by the Fund for Lake Michigan
9:00 AM - 10:15 AMWed
Plenary Session
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Chairman Hill with deliver the Oneida Thanksgiving address and describe our responsibilities to be stewards of creation as well as our reciprocal relationships in a healthy environment. He’ll provide an overview of Oneida history in Wisconsin, including the social and ecological impacts of federal policy on Oneida and other Tribal Nations to provide context for how we got where we are today. The Oneida reservation has lost nearly 75% of its wetlands and forests and almost all of its native grasslands. Over the past three decades, the Oneida Nation has regained control of land on the reservation, land that today provides opportunities to repair ecological damage. Our philosophy is to use a “headwaters on down” approach to restoring our landscape. Partnerships with like-minded agencies and organizations make it possible for us to restore at a landscape scale.
Sponsored by the Fund for Lake Michigan